Entity Type Id’s $entityType is an integer id for what type of entity the attribute is associated to. If you look at the “eav_attribute” table you will see that each attribute has an entity_type_id. 1 = Customer Entity 2 = Shipping Entity (I believe) 3 = Category Entity 4 = Product Entity The Following code was added to answer a question in the replies: To make a product attribute available when getting a product collection(such as on a category page or search results page) you can add some code the a config.xml file that instructs Magento to load always the attribute when a product collection is loaded. How to add an attribute to be loaded whenever a product collection is loaded: This can go in any config.xml file.
I would recommend putting it in a custom module rather than one from the core code. Just replace “attribute_name” with the attribute code of the attribute you are trying to add. » 4 Sep 2010 » HI i have a Problem getting the Options of an Multiselect Attribute I created the multiselect Attribute in the Adminpanel with two options. » 28 Sep 2010 » Hi I want to know how to add custom field for attribute option? For example if attribute name is “Carat” for diamond product Its value can be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 I can Add up to this level in magento, with the help of attribute and its option but I want extra field called “description” which explain what is the meaning of value 1 (carat=1) and what is the mean of 2, admin will write some description about it. So admin will enter data like English English_Desc French French_Desc 1 This is eng des for 1 1 This is french desc 1 Thanks John.
For Adding custom attribute, we have to create new column for custom attribute field in 'sales_flat_order' and 'sales_flat_quote' We can create it By 2 ways 1.By custom Module Mysql setup file (file path- /app/code/local/pwt/singlepagecheckout/sql/singlepagecheckout_setup/mysql4-install-1.1.php) Here.